Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Maybe we're not physically traveling, but we've created some new plans in celebration of this amazing city. Given the amount of land the planning commission has sway over, we saw the wisdom in customizing a plan to fit into an odd yet common scenario. If you own a 50x100 corner lot that was originally platted as two 25x100 lots, you are allowed to reclaim those two lots and split it any way you like. So long as each lot has at least 1800 square feet and each lot faces a different street.

A common result is to have the original house face forward and a brand new 36x50 lot facing a side street. Setbacks and required outdoor spaces what they are, a slightly convoluted 26x35 footprint remains. Restricted cantilevers over setbacks are allowed but we chose to start with the confines and see what would happen. We ended up with 3 new plans.

The Portland and Portland A are both very similar plans with different facades. Both have 1758 square feet, an attached garage (rare for us), 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, great room. Essentially what you'd expect from a house these days. The roof and upper floor has been configured such that you could have a livable attic if you so chose.

The Portland B is a slightly different beast that attempted to open up the main floor by adding a garage under. Alongside the garage and integrated into the house is an accessory dwelling unit, also beloved by the Portland Planning Commission. With the ADU it weighs in at 2046 square feet with 4 bedrooms and 3.5 baths.

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